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1. andyjohnson0 · 1790769000 · focus · HN ↗

   The Blackbird is a deeply awesome machine, and hn understandably loves it. But this initiative is almost certainly about agency funding and access to budget, not engineering.

   The Orange Entity sets the direction and his congress provides the money. My guess would be that NASA has been told that the direction that leads to there being money is to forget the space telescopes and other science, and instead to focus on national prestige projects (Moon, Mars) and things that will feed through to military applications (hypersonic flight).

   1. glorth · 1790775718 · focus · HN ↗

      This is one hundred percent the kind of cover story you give someone to gauge their interest in a real classified project. Guaranteed the people who said yes to this are not working on the SR-71A.

      1. verzali · 1790780965 · focus · HN ↗

         Why would you go after long retired folks though?

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